Freeside Atlanta and My Inventor Club will be teaming up on Saturday, February 9th to bring you a daylong hackathon in 3D Modeling, Design, Marketing, Theory and more. This is a free, educational meet and greet event which will be hosted in Freeside Atlanta and My Inventor Club's space.This is the (draft) speaker line-up and schedule of events! Like so many of these things, this is subject to change. Watch this blog or follow us on Twitter for updates and other announcements.Cost: FreeLocation: Freeside Atlanta, 675 Metropolitan Parkway Suite 6066, Atlanta, GA 30310Directions, Parking, and other InformationDate: February 9th, 2013Time: 1200-1700 ESTContact: pr@freesideatlanta.org or info@myinventorclub.com

Shane Mathews - My Inventor ClubTopic: Prototyping Management: Strengths, Weaknesses, and ExpectationsTime/Length: 30 mins 1130-1200 (UTC−05:00)Shane Matthews, product development guru and founder of My Inventor Club will talk about the professional use of 3d printers, the difference between hobby and professional grade 3D printers and how 3D printers, MakerBot Industries, have impacted the professional community. In addition Shane will have sample prints from some of these printers to show the difference between the prints as well as prototypes casted from 3D printed part. Come see first hand some of the differences in 3d printers, ask questions and learn.http://myinventorclub.com

Clint RinehartTopic: 3D Scanning with Open Source Software and Microsoft KinectTime/Length: 30 mins 1215-1245 (UTC−05:00)3D scanning is a common practice among 3D printing enthusiasts. This technology is no longer a limited modality with research or corporate funding, but now a practically attainable practice with a VERY low cost of entry. This talk will feature the use of a Microsoft Kinect device with ReconstructME software.

For 18 months now, our desktop 3D printers have been producing commodity prints and sold on the market. With 3 printers now, we are approaching viability as a self-sustaining business. But we have shown there is this small repertoire of digital goods, capable of desktop replication, and valued by the market -- set only to expand as replication technology advances and the software catches up. Along with our experiences so far, I will share my thinking on free & open source hardware, distributed manufacturing, and an open economy.http://carrythewhat.com

Emmett Lalish - Engineer or an Artist?Topic: Designing 3D-printed mechanismsTime/Length: 30 mins 1330-1400 (UTC−05:00)I'll give some pointers on using OpenSCAD to design complex, printable mechanisms. I avoid using support at all cost and in my book, the order of coolness for mechanisms goes: bolt together, snap together, preassembled. The beauty of 3D printers is that they make preassembled mechanisms possible for the first time, but designing them requires thinking about shapes in a whole new way.http://www.thingiverse.com/emmett

Mark Ganter - The Solheim lab Open3DPTopic: AM in the early morning hours...Time/Length: 30 mins 1400-1430 (UTC−05:00)The Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Washington is host to the Solheim Additive Manufacturing Laboratory. This lab hosts the Open3DP website. Open3DP's mission:to disseminate information and foster a community of people interested in an open sharing of 3D printing information. We hope that you find useful information on this site and that you will feel free to comment and share your expertise.http://open3dp.me.washington.edu

Breakout Workshops 1500-1800 Eastern Time (UTC−05:00)

A demonstration of Microsoft Kinect Scanning and Reconstruction with ReconstructME.

CAD, CAM, Print!!: Module 1Instructor: Nicholas GiovincoLocation:Freeside Atlanta Classroom ZoneRequirements: Laptop and CreativityThis is part 1 of a two part workshop, centered on Computer Aided Design (CAD). In this, we will walk through a very simple design process in Google Sketchup of creating your very own Keychain. Choose a word or name and lets begin!

CAD, CAM, Print!!: Module 2Instructor: Nicholas GiovincoLocation:Freeside Atlanta Classroom ZoneRequirements: Laptop and CreativityThis is part 2 of a two part workshop, centered on Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM), where we work our brains around physical creation of our idea. In this, we will discuss the best methods for printing our designed keychain in a MakerBot Replicator 2.

zCorp 3D Printing via Cold SinteringInstructors: Buddy Smith & Patch TrowellLocation:Freeside Atlanta Woodshop ZoneRequirements: Protective Eyewear is supplied and must be worn at all timesAdditive manufacturing has many, MANY, applications and modalities. Hobbyist machines such as Makerbot and other Repraps utilize a derivative of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), but a lesser known modality is Sintering. The zCorp technologies found at My Inventor Club and Freeside Atlanta are capable of just such methods. In this workshop you will see and experience the basics of this technique applied.

Startup Your Prototyping IdeaInstructor: Shane MathewsLocation: My Inventor ClubRequirements: Interest in how to develop an ideaDiscuss the first steps in taking an idea to a physical prototype, deciding on the best process to make a prototype including materials, fit, finish, number of evolutions, and other details of prototyping before moving to the next step.